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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Birthday: July 04, 1926
Deathday: April 11, 2008
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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Overview: After being arrested for stealing fruit while passing through a small village, a wandering minstrel serves his time in a creepy monastery.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-11
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Overview: When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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Overview: The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-23
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Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Overview: It's the night before Christmas, and all the toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the furnace. This includes Quincy, a most lifelike doll. In a last ditch effort to save himself and his "unwanted" chums from incineration, he goes on a long and perilous journey in search of the only one who can save them: Santa Claus.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-24
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Overview: An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Overview: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Overview: John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. He soon learns his half brother has spent his fortune and is mixed up with jewel thieves
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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Overview: A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Overview: Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-31
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Overview: The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Overview: Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-31
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Overview: Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-12
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Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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Overview: Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Overview: When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Overview: The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Overview: An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-04
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Overview: When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-06
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Overview: A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Overview: From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Overview: A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Overview: Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-11
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Overview: A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Overview: A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him to overcome his nerves and rescue his girlfriend who has been kidnapped to force him to sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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